The Book Tower is a British television series for children, produced by Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

, that ran for 11 series from 3 January 1979 to 30 May 1989.

Initially presented by Doctor Who

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star Tom Baker

Tom Baker

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 (1979–81), each episode explored one or more books, using dramatic presentations, with the aim of getting children interested in reading.

Later presenters included Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore (actor)

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 (1982–83), Alun Armstrong

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 (1984), Neil Innes

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 (1985), Roger McGough

Roger McGough

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 (1986), Bernard Bresslaw

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 (1987), and Timmy Mallett

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The theme tune, based on Paganini's 24th Caprice, was taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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's album Variations.